House prices edged up in April despite the stamp duty increase and Donald Trump’s tariff war as Britain’s housing market continued to be “remarkably stable”.
UK house prices rose, on average, by 0.3 per cent last month, according to Halifax, one of the country’s biggest mortgage lenders: an improvement on the 0.5 per cent drop it recorded in March.
Compared with this time last year, prices are up 3.2 per cent, which is the fastest rate of annual inflation recorded by Halifax so far in 2025. It estimates that the average price of a UK home is now £297,781, about £1,000 shy of the record high hit in January.
Prices are still rising fastest in Northern Ireland, where the average value of a house has
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